Tweet Your Recipe

Tweet Your Recipe
Imagine squeezing a recipe with local ingredients into a single 140 character tweet. Recently, Rick Bakas challenged his readers to tweet food pairing submissions in a competition featuring a different Washington State wine every day. Sponsored by @2DaysinSeattle, the wine assignment for Wednesday was Andrew Will Sorella 2004, a bordeaux style blend with a few years of age. The winner would receive a bottle of the wine; how much fun is that!

The prize winning meal – it was very nice!

I knew I would need to keep it simple, but Rick also made it clear that Washington State ingredients should be incorporated into the recipe.

I love lamb chops with a wine like the Sorella

My son goes to Whitman College in Walla Walla, home of the famous onion

Melted blue cheese seals the deal

I did a little research on local producers in Washington. I knew just what local ingredients I would use in Minnesota, but the contest wasn’t organized by @2DaysinMinneapolis! Here’s the recipe in 140 characters:

Overall: very nice, and Julie likes it! This is a big deal, as Julie doesn’t go for very tannic reds. I think the extra bottle age has softened the tannins to the point where Julie can really enjoy the wine.
Eye: Deepest darkest warm red but not brown. Only translucent at the very edge. Looks to be unfiltered.
Nose: Dark fruits and pine forest in a very gentle way, very nice. Not young, but still fresh and nice, like walking in a pine forest.
Mouth: Dark fruit, tannic but the tannins are so nice and smooth. This wine shows why one would age a wine. It still has years left to go but it was very nice with lamb chops (me) or steak (Julie).

Andrew Will Sorella 2004 – a lovely Bordeaux style blend from Washington State

You need bread to soak up extra juices from the lamb chops

Carmelized Onions – difficult to find local onions in Minnesota in the winter!

Northern Lights Blue – I dare you to find this outside Minneapolis – St. Paul

Sunshine Harvest Farms lamb chops – farm raised local lamb

Creamy blue cheese melts into the onions

Thanks to Rick Bakas, Two Days in Seattle, and Andrew Will winery for a fun competition and a lovely bottle of wine.